07-29-2014, 05:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2014, 04:52 AM by stevebowers.)
Yes, but the radiating surfaces still have to be large enough to dump the heat. Perhaps you could cycle the waste heat out to the star's Oort cloud to radiate it there. But the star's total luminosity doesn't change, unless you engineer the star deliberately. In fact, if you are running a refrigeration system, that results in an increase in total waste heat emissions, rather than a decrease.
The 'EEC' part of the HEEC classification refers to the amount of energy each civilisation absorbs and re-emits, the temperature of that re-emission is only relevant to how easy they are to detect.
The 'EEC' part of the HEEC classification refers to the amount of energy each civilisation absorbs and re-emits, the temperature of that re-emission is only relevant to how easy they are to detect.